Tomic's latest premature exit came at the Atlanta Open, in the quarter-finals against fellow Aussie Alex de Minaur. The world No.106 was losing 6-2 3-0 at the time and later cited torso pain.

Woodbridge said on Sports Sunday that Tomic, 26, had an extraordinary record of match retirements.

"He got to the second set [against de Minaur], so that was good," Woodbridge said, tongue in cheek.

"Look - 17 times since 2012 he has retired in matches. That's retired mid-match.

"You've got ticket holders sitting there that have paid good money to come and watch and you can't even finish? Let alone the other issues of tanking and that.

"Seventeen times. If you think about this - 22 weeks is a year's schedule basically, for a tennis player. So he's nearly had one whole year of his career in retirements."

Bernard Tomic during his retirement loss to Alex de Minaur in Atlanta. (Getty)

Tomic is coming off a massive controversy at Wimbledon, in which he was fined his first round loser's purse of $80,000 after it was deemed that he did not try hard enough in a dismal loss to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.